A civilian, Arnoldo Gracia of Harlingen, also pleaded guilty to smuggling-related counts and awaits sentencing.

The civilian apparently acted as the coyote, delivering the illegal aliens to the soldiers, who used their military credentials and (apparently) their personal vehicles to get the illegal aliens through the Border Patrol checkpoint at Sarita, Texas, hidden under military equipment.

Interestingly enough, Perez-Morales appeared before Judge Andrew S. Hanen. Judge Hanen is the official who issued an injunction against the implementation of Obama’s illegal executive order, which was intended to allow illegal aliens to stay in the U.S. “legally” and even get work permits, so they could (continue to) take jobs and benefits from U.S. citizens, costing us billions.

Did you hear about this case before? It’s interesting, very interesting, how little national publicity this outrage has received.

So many questions were left unanswered by the stories I read:

Were all of these soldiers U.S. citizens?

What kind of punishment will they receive? They could get 10 years in prison. So far, one got only a year and a day in prison, receiving leniency on account of his age, despite breaking his oath to the USA. (Three are yet to be sentenced.)

How is it possible for them to have been caught smuggling on three different occasions, over six months? Did nothing happen to them the first time they were caught?

What became of the illegal aliens? Were they set loose into the U.S.?

Were the soldiers paid for their services to the illegal aliens? If so, how much did they get; did they report the income to the IRS; and what became of their ill-gotten gains?

More important, have they as yet been dishonorably discharged from the military or will We the People be paying them benefits in the future?

If any of the guilty are not citizens of the U.S., were they or will they be deported?

Are they lucky to not be charged with treason? (Yep!)

How did the soldiers vet these illegal aliens, if they did? Could any of the interlopers have been foreign terrorists? (Yep!)

Breitbart covered this story and reported that the soldiers were successful in smuggling illegal aliens multiple times, before they were caught. Has anyone tried to round up those illegal scofflaws?

With the ascendency of Donald Trump as candidate for the presidency–a candidate who’s focused upon stopping illegal aliens from getting into our country–it’s no wonder that the Obama administration and the mainstream media would prefer to keep this story hushed up.

Clarification: The photo at the top is from an actual attempt to breach our border. However, it’s not a photo of the troops smuggling illegal aliens into our country. It’s just an apt photo taken by the Border Patrol, used here for the purpose of illustration.

What disturbed me most is how they basically cover it up. Don’t you think this should be huge news? I mean, Bergdahl is, so why not these guys? Persons of color (I assume at least two are). Is that the reason? Fort Hood, of all places, too. Remember how they allow non-citizens to join up, so that’s why I wonder about the two who have Spanish surnames. Are they citizens of Mexico, too? Who exactly were they smuggling?

Wait! Excuse me. I misunderstood the headline. Having read the full article, I now see that the writer doesn’t go near the probability that the “clock” was NOT built by the kid, nor that he brought it there for a reason that wasn’t to show an ENGINEERING teacher his prowess in building things. (That’s because of all the teachers at the school, the one who would probably immediately understand that he didn’t build ANYTHING, would be the engineering teacher.) All this article outs is the fact that white kids have been as severely punished for less than this prank, so there’s no racism involved.

About the media going nuts over Trump not “correcting” the questioner, but in an aside Steyn points out:

“Assuming for the sake of argument that the questioner is genuine and not a plant (like, say, the 14-year old all-American schoolboy clockmaker who didn’t make a clock at all and is the son of a belligerent Muslim activist and perennial Sudanese presidential candidate whose brother runs a trucking company amusingly called Twin Towers Transportation) …”

So the clockmaker’s uncle ridicules the USA by naming his trucking company “Twin Towers Transportation”?

Who wouldn’t think that? Only a dyed-in-the-wool dingbat wouldn’t at least CONSIDER it, considering his father’s activism, his own lack of forthrightness, his changing narrative, the FACT that he didn’t build the clock but says he did, and the name of his uncle’s company. Gauranteed that the progressives who challenge Dawkins haven’t even LOOKED with open minds at the evidence. This is so much like with Barry’s bogus documents. They won’t even CONSIDER it. As with Barry, they won’t even ask the question about why the family won’t waive privacy rights so the school can tell the whole story. I read that the Muslim organizations aren’t going to pursue anything. Now why would they suddenly drop it like a hot potato? They know. Everybody with common sense knows. It’s like when you hear about nooses allegedly put on dorm rooms of black kids by racist whites. Then suddenly, nothing, until you go looking and find a story buried somewhere about how the kid put the noose there himself or herself to get attention by making false accusations of racism and victimization. It’s also a total LIE that white kids wouldn’t be arrested and handcuffed under similar or even less threatening circumstances. They have been and they are. Rightfully so. What would happen if it got out that the teachers saw this and looked the other way? What if it wasn’t innocent but really was a dangerous device? What if students were injured or worse? Then who would be blamed, fired, sued, excoriated, maybe even prosecuted for negligence?

The person who mentioned that he’s only 14. What a dolt. There are 6-year-old suicide bombers and beheaders in the ME. Now in no way am I suggesting this child in Texas is the equivalent. What I’m saying is that for someone to believe that young age negates insane orthodoxy is himself bordering on insane. The younger a person is, the easier the person is to indoctrinate and manipulate. How else do you explain 6-year-old jihadis?

“Although no one can claim to know for sure what’s in the Pope’s mind, taking a look at some of his recent comments on the topic of marriage and the family could give us a clue as to where he stands before his trip to the United States:

“(Today) the family – as God wants it, composed of a man and a woman for the good of the spouses and also the generation and education of children – is deformed by powerful contrary projects supported by ideological colonization.” (Pope Francis to members of Equipes Notre Dame Sept. 10, 2015)

“Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. The family is also threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life…God calls upon us to recognize the dangers threatening our own families and to protect them from harm…Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death.” (Pope Francis to families during his visit to the Philippines, January, 2015)

“The family is the foundation of co-existence and a guarantee against social fragmentation. Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother capable of creating a suitable environment for the child’s growth and emotional development. This is why, in the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, I stressed the ‘indispensable’ contribution of marriage to society, a contribution which ‘transcends the feelings and momentary needs of the couple’ (n. 66). And this is why I am grateful to you for the emphasis that your colloquium has placed on the benefits that marriage can provide children, the spouses themselves, and society.” (Pope Francis to attendees of The Complementarity of Man and Woman, November, 2014)

“The family is being hit, the family is being struck and the family is being bastardized. You can call everything family, right? … What is being proposed is not marriage, it’s an association. But it’s not marriage! It’s necessary to say these things very clearly and we have to say it! (There are) so many new forms of unions (that are) totally destructive and limiting the greatness of the love of marriage…So many families are divided, so many marriages broken, (there is) such relativism in the concept of the Sacrament of Marriage.” (Pope Francis spoke to the Schoenstatt Movement, October, 2014).

A look at the Pope’s general audiences since January could also help, since marriage and the family has been the focus of his reflections as a lead-in to this year’s synod of bishops on the family.”

So far, so good. No wonder Barry is determined to give the figurative finger to the Pope and a fist bump to his LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ peeps. What a craven a-hole.

The thought of a Trump presidency genuinely scares me, or even worse,
a choice between Trump or Biden with Warren as his Veep. I don’t think I’d be able to watch a debate where Biden would be the calm, rational one on the stage.

“But” then again, the American people would never elect some shallow egomaniac whose main skill is putting up a façade of competence for the TV cameras… right?
@ floppinfaces.net

The irony is that the same leftists and progressives who DEMAND that the KY clerk Kim Davis keep her religion out of her job as County Clerk are the very ones excoriating Carson for advocating the same thing, in essence. Carson says, truthfully, that the nature of islam REQUIRES the combination of religion WITH the government/political system.

An African American friend of mine who voted for Obama twice talked to me on the phone the other day–“We got to elect Trump.” And so the conversation went on. Trump is hitting a vein in the minority community that wants to get ahead and not live at the behest of the government. For people who want a fresh reality in government, they are willing to go Trump.

~ mamapjs andreaofla • 18 hours ago

That agrees with what I’m seeing here in Florida. A lot of African Americans who know I’m a Republican have been quietly coming up to me to tell me that they are switching parties to vote for Trump in our closed primary. They are definitely connecting with his message, but are being very quiet about it (well… with the exception of Diamond and Silk, who are cheerleaders par excellence for Trump) because they don’t want to expose themselves publicly. And who can blame them with all the violence going on in recent months?

~ LostPilgrim mamapjs • 12 hours ago

Is it “only” the violence that makes them change their affiliation? Or is it that the African Americans are realizing they are just a pawn in Obama’s world? Their existence has not improved one iota during his reign or under the Democrats in power.